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We give an explicit construction of exact cooperative regenerating codes at the MBCR (minimum bandwidth cooperative regeneration) point. Before the paper, the only known explicit MBCR code is given with parameters $n=d+r$ and $d=k$, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang

Cooperative regenerating codes are designed for repairing multiple node failures in distributed storage systems. In contrast to the original repair model of regenerating codes, which are for the repair of single node failure, data exchange…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Kenneth W. Shum , Junyu Chen

Modern large-scale distributed storage systems use erasure codes to protect against node failures with low storage overhead. In practice, the failure rate and other factors of storage devices in the system may vary significantly over time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiangliang Kong

This paper proposes a coding framework for capacity-region-achieving sparse regression (SR) codes over MIMO multiple-access channels (MIMO-MAC), where a single SR code is used for each user at the transmitter. With random semi-unitary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hao Yan , Lei Liu , Yuhao Liu , Burak Çakmak , Giuseppe Caire

A novel coding scheme for exact repair-regenerating codes is presented in this paper. The codes proposed in this work can trade between the repair bandwidth of nodes (number of downloaded symbols from each surviving node in a repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mehran Elyasi , Soheil Mohajer

A novel technique for construction of minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes is presented. Based on this technique, three explicit constructions of MSR codes are given. The first two constructions provide access-optimal MSR codes, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-29 Netanel Raviv , Natalia Silberstein , Tuvi Etzion

We investigate the problem of encoding data into an $(n, t)$-break-resilient code ($(n, t)$-BRC), i.e., a collections of sequences of length~$n$ from which the original data can be reconstructed even if they are adversarially broken at up…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Canran Wang , Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv

This paper investigates decoder diversity architectures for short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, based on recurrent neural network (RNN) models of the belief-propagation (BP) algorithm. We propose a new approach to achieve decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Joachim Rosseel , Valérian Mannoni , Inbar Fijalkow , Valentin Savin

Regenerating codes are a class of recently developed codes for distributed storage that, like Reed-Solomon codes, permit data recovery from any subset of k nodes within the n-node network. However, regenerating codes possess in addition,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nihar B. Shah , K. V. Rashmi , P. Vijay Kumar , Kannan Ramchandran

Distributed data storage systems are essential to deal with the need to store massive volumes of data. In order to make such a system fault-tolerant, some form of redundancy becomes crucial, incurring various overheads - most prominently in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-25 Frederique Oggier , Anwitaman Datta

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

Information-theoretic security is considered in the paradigm of network coding in the presence of wiretappers, who can access one arbitrary edge subset up to a certain size, also referred to as the security level. Secure network coding is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Xuan Guang , Raymond W. Yeung , Fang-Wei Fu

In distributed storage systems, erasure codes with locality $r$ is preferred because a coordinate can be recovered by accessing at most $r$ other coordinates which in turn greatly reduces the disk I/O complexity for small $r$. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-20 Anyu Wang , Zhifang Zhang

Diversity coding is a network restoration technique which offers near-hitless restoration, while other state-of-the art techniques are significantly slower. Furthermore, the extra spare capacity requirement of diversity coding is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Serhat Nazim Avci , Ender Ayanoglu

Decoding and repair schemes are proposed for shift-exclusive-or (shift-XOR) product-matrix (PM) regenerating codes, which outperform the existing schemes in terms of both communication and computation costs. In particular, for the shift-XOR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ximing Fu , Shenghao Yang , Zhiqing Xiao

In this paper, we propose two new constructions of exact-repair minimum storage regenerating (exact-MBR) codes. Both constructions obtain the encoded symbols by first treating the message vector over GF(q) as a linearized polynomial and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Hongmei Xie , Zhiyuan Yan

In this paper, inner and outer bounds on the capacity region of two-user interference channels with two confidential messages have been proposed. By adding secure multiplex coding to the error correction method in [15] which achieves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Xiaolin Li , Ryutaroh Matsumoto

The repair bandwidth of a code is the minimum amount of data required to repair one or several failed nodes (erasures). For MDS codes, the repair bandwidth is bounded below by the so-called cut-set bound, and codes that meet this bound with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

Recently, the research on local repair codes is mainly confined to repair the failed nodes within each repair group. But if the extreme cases occur that the entire repair group has failed, the local code stored in the failed group need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Jing Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Hongmei Xie